I tend to be short and quick in most of my answers assuming a certain level of perspective from the poster to whom I am responding. I have been called on that several times so, let me elaborate somewhat.
In your 'parable', god sent help three times to the man that was waiting for god to help him. An all knowing god should have known the man would not accept help from the men without god making itself known. By redirecting the rescue parties, god could possibly have allowed others to die while wasting time on one that did not need help.
Ultimately, what this parable is saying, is that we can never know when god is offering assistance and should just assume god is offering help anytime help is offered. It is the "mystery of god". Effectively, whether or not a god exists has no bearing on the way things are. They are what they are.
I will elaborate a tad on that. There is no difference between, 'Things are the way they are because there is a god' and Things are the way they are because there is no god'.
Things are the way they are and there is no mark of god anywhere but in the delusional brainwashed minds of believers.
In your 'parable', god sent help three times to the man that was waiting for god to help him. An all knowing god should have known the man would not accept help from the men without god making itself known. By redirecting the rescue parties, god could possibly have allowed others to die while wasting time on one that did not need help.
Ultimately, what this parable is saying, is that we can never know when god is offering assistance and should just assume god is offering help anytime help is offered. It is the "mystery of god". Effectively, whether or not a god exists has no bearing on the way things are. They are what they are.
I will elaborate a tad on that. There is no difference between, 'Things are the way they are because there is a god' and Things are the way they are because there is no god'.
Things are the way they are and there is no mark of god anywhere but in the delusional brainwashed minds of believers.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
